The Choir for Non-Musicians with Bint Mbareh

Saturday April 18th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Supper 7pm; Workshop starts 7.30pm

Join us for Bint Mbareh’s “Choir for Non-Musicians”, an evening of vocal connection designed for people who use their voices verbally, but not musically.

Bint - whose research into folklore in Palestine has schooled her in technologies which transmit the voice, its history and the knowledge it carries - will gently guide us through a series of experimental vocal exercises: whispering illegible sentences in unison, clapping in extreme synchronisation at different speeds, conducting one another, translating one another's gibberish, finding echoes, repeating passages of text in unison, and more. Non-musicians are warmly invited; All levels of vocal confidence welcomed. Participants need only bring themselves.

Bint is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally, like being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler-colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator of political revolution.

Doors will open at 6.30pm for drinks with a complimentary one-pot vegan supper served at 7pm. The workshop will start at 7.30pm. We will then break for more drinks and socialising at 9pm. Entry is free after 9pm and the bar will be open until 11pm.

Tickets are reduced for Kairos Community Members. Community Membership is automatic and free for anyone who has attended at least three talk or discussion events, at least one of those in the last nine months. The Coupon Code to book will be on the next Community Membership email. If you can’t wait, email us at events@kairos.london.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm. Supper at 7pm. Workshop starts at 7.30pm. Bar closes at 11pm.

£15 Standard; £10 Community Member; £10 Struggling financially; £10 Under 30s; £20 with Donation; £5 Frequent Visitor and Supporter Members; Free after 9pm. Food complimentary. (To find out more about our membership scheme, visit our Membership page.)

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